Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

[cdpig]

i like the idea if regulated. please filter the people who are doing there ratings in fantasy land. i can imagine what a group of Notre Dame fans could do to Jimmy Clauson's rating if there 100 on everything is added, or if a ***** puts 0 on everything.

[LBzrule]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

I think it'll be fun as well as absurd.

[Flamehead]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

What Peter Moore is attempting to do, of course, is dictate the parameters of "taking fan feedback seriously" while implying that it is a general rule.

According to Moore, they take fan feedback seriously, so hey, YOU get to vote for the coverboy.

YOU get vote for the demo teams.

YOU get to vote on ratings.

What I have yet to see Mr. Moore do is translate fan feedback into such areas as a robust franchise mode, effective quality assurance, or any number of things listed on these forums.

Mr. Moore, voting on a cover athlete is NOT "taking fan feedback seriously". Please stop insulting our intelligence.

[TomBrady]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

Madden 12: You get a blank CD and create your own game

[joejccva71]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

See whats funny is we will be able to tell (well EA will) who the fanboy kids are from the football sim guys are (you know the ones who KNOW about football).

The people that know football and are the sim guys and will 99.9% of the time remain unbiased about ANY player. Even if they personally despise one player but he's worth an 85 OVR then he'll get an 85 OVR vote by that particular person.

1) Because it's more realistic and thats what simmers want.

2) When they play AGAINST that player that has the 85 OVR and they BEAT them, it's that much more satisfying.

Personally I can't stand Tim Tebow but if he's worth a 75 OVR as a rookie, then I will give it to him for the realism (just using this as an example) which is entirely what us offline franchisers really are after.

Case closed.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

I suspect a lot of fans will take this seriously, but even if they don't - it's easy. Just pick an OVR range for rookies, say 60-80, and just drop off every vote who rates them outside that range. That easily shops out all the haters giving them 0's and the fanboys giving them 99's.

[Joeyland]

Then again how much worse could they do it?
Last year the best catch # on the Giants was rookie TE, 4th rounder Travis Beckam, with an 85 catch, I assumed the "ratings guy", was a Wisconsin alum.

[SA1NT401]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

stupidest idea since the "weapons' idea....

[ibe3zy]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

This is the worst idea in the history of sports games. Seriously, Tim Tebow is going to play like Tom Brady.Mark my words.
What they should be doing instead of setting up this nonsense is using the ideas that people post on this site. Everyone knows that the overall rating is useless nowadays in Madden.

[rootofalleli]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

Did people bother to read the responses from Dewiel at EA? Why does page 3 have the same posts as page 1? Please stop raging over something that isn't going to happen.

[kcarr]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

The thing that really comes to mind here is last year during the draft when several people on here were talking about how great of a passer pat white was going to be and trying to compare him to guys like drew brees saying that by mid season through roster updates he would easily be atleast 80s overall. There are a lot of people out there who just cannot take an objective opinion of a player due to having seen him play at college and being a fan and wanting to see him succeed at the next level.

[favredollarfootlong]

this game is going to be terrible anyway....look who its made by. i'll stick to my 6 year old game that is better and more fun to play and it plays like a SIMULATION.

[RogueHominid]

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Man, I really don't like the sound of this. I get the marketing department wanting to connect with fans, empower them, whatever. But allowing homerism to translate directly into ratings is an absolutely terrible idea.

I liked the job Moore did of differentiating between elite players, average players, and scrubs. My concern is that draft feedback from fans will overvalue players. How many times do you hear Kiper say "so and so is the kind of guy you can pencil in for a decade," only to have that guy be a career backup and only play like 5 years?

The draft is such a crapshoot, imo, and the tendency of fans is to want to believe that their picks will be impact starters or have legit starter ratings in M10.

[Mr. Franchise]

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Myron Rolle better have an awareness of 99.

[KBLover]

Re: Fans to Influence Madden NFL 11 Rookie Ratings During the NFL Draft

Wait, what?

So people can say "so-and-so should be rated much higher" and just say that devoid of any evidence, proof, footage (not just one play, etc), and it will be taken into consideration?

They'll do that, but we can't edit ratings in franchise mode (can't even apply EA updates to franchise in progress - have to start over) - which is basically the same thing (allowing fans to edit the player ratings to what they think they should be).

What? Wow.